Compression of Multimedia Information

Posted in March 18th, 2001

Published in Papers/Documentation, Lossy Compression

by A.Ratushnyak. A short discussion related to the compression of audio and pictures. A Russian version of the paper can be found at

http://geocities.com/eri32/mmi.txt.
A Library readher had this to say: Worth reading 2 or 3 times.

http://geocities.com/eri32/mmd.htm

Hawk Software HawkVoice

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Posted in March 9th, 2001

Published in Non-Commercial Libraries, Source Code, Speech, Audio

HawkVoice is a game oriented, multiplayer voice over network API released under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), with
support for Linux/Unix and Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000. It is designed to be a portable, open source code alternative to DirectPlay(R) Voice in DX8.

http://www.hawksoft.com/hawkvoice/

Lab squeezes HDTV into standard TV channel

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Posted in March 9th, 2001

Published in Standards, Video

EE Times reports on a development which would allow HDTV and NTSC to coexist on the same frequencies. It’s a hack, and it takes a lot of compression, but it keeps existing set owners online after cutover.

http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010305S0104

StreamingMediaLand.com

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Posted in March 9th, 2001

Published in Links, Video, Audio

Portal site labels itself as a place with Resources for Engineers, Researchers, and Marketing People in the Streaming Media Field. The Knowledge Base has a good selection of links to standards, tutorials, code, etc. of interest to compression aficionados.

http://streamingmedialand.com/

Mathtools.net Compression Page

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Posted in March 9th, 2001

Published in Source Code, Data Compression

Mathtools.net describes itself as the technical computing portal for all your scientific and computing needs. Perhaps a bit ambitious! Here’s their page with C++ compression links.

http://www.mathtools.net/C++/Compression/index.html

Mathtools.net DSP/Applications/Compression Page

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Posted in March 9th, 2001

Published in Links, Data Compression

Mathtools.net describes itself as the technical computing portal for all your scientific and computing needs. Perhaps a bit ambitious! Here’s their page links to compression applications.

http://www.mathtools.net/C++/DSP/Application_and_Industry/Data_Compression/index.html

JPEG arithmetic encoding and decoding portable software implementation

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Posted in March 9th, 2001

Published in Source Code, Arithmetic Coding, JPEG

A back-end implemenation of arithmetic coding for JPEG as defined in the standard. It is distributed as an add-on that can be used with the Independent JPEG groups library. The work of Guido Vollbeding.

http://sylvana.net/jpeg-ari/